Chatham
County and the metro Savannah area have a number of docks and piers open to public
fishing. On the south end of Tybee Island is the Back River Pier, near the mouth
of Tybee Creek. Others are Bells Landing Dock, to the south of Hunter Army Airfield
on Georgia Highway 204; Downing Fishing Piers, on Georgia Highway 204 leading
to Skidaway Island; Kings Ferry Park Dock, on the Ogeechee River at the U.S. Highway
17 bridge; Lazaretto Creek Dock, just off U.S. Highway 80 leading from Savannah
to Tybee Island; Salt Creek Park Dock, just west of Savannah on U.S. Highway
17; Thunderbolt Fishing Pier, on the Wilmington River; F.W. Spencer Park Dock,
at the U.S. Highway 80 bridge over the Wilmington River; and the Tybee Island
Ocean Pier.